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One man's view of the Foxconn factories and Apple's role

TechCrunch talks to Mike Daisey, whose highly acclaimed show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is playing at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Daisey is not only a brilliant monologist in the tradition of Michael Moore and Spalding Gray, but he’s also a crusading journalist who has exposed the inhumane working conditions of the workers at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China. Daisy went to Shenzhen and stood outside the monstrous Foxconn factory and interviewed its workers – some as young as 12 years old – about the inhumane working conditions there. This is what he found…

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